Re: [PATCH net v2 1/1] benet: fix return value check in be_lancer_xmit_workarounds()

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 11:00 -0700, Alexander H Duyck wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 11:27 +0800, Yuanjun Gong wrote:
> > in be_lancer_xmit_workarounds(), it should go to label 'tx_drop'
> > if an unexpected value is returned by pskb_trim().
> > 
> > Fixes: 93040ae5cc8d ("be2net: Fix to trim skb for padded vlan packets to workaround an ASIC Bug")
> > Signed-off-by: Yuanjun Gong <ruc_gongyuanjun@163.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
> > index 18c2fc880d09..0616b5fe241c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
> > @@ -1138,7 +1138,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *be_lancer_xmit_workarounds(struct be_adapter *adapter,
> >  	    (lancer_chip(adapter) || BE3_chip(adapter) ||
> >  	     skb_vlan_tag_present(skb)) && is_ipv4_pkt(skb)) {
> >  		ip = (struct iphdr *)ip_hdr(skb);
> > -		pskb_trim(skb, eth_hdr_len + ntohs(ip->tot_len));
> > +		if (unlikely(pskb_trim(skb, eth_hdr_len + ntohs(ip->tot_len))))
> > +			goto tx_drop;
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	/* If vlan tag is already inlined in the packet, skip HW VLAN
> 
> I'm not sure dropping the packet is the right solution here. Based on
> the description of the issue that this is a workaround for it might
> make more sense to simply put out a WARN based on the failure since it
> means that the tot_len field in the IP header will be modified
> incorrectly and a bad IPv4 checksum will be inserted.

... which in turn means the packet will be dropped later, right?

Then I guess it's better to drop it now, it requires a similar amount
of code and will reduce resources usage all around.

Cheers,

Paolo